Public Affairs

"Sustainable Development for the Central Coast" is the focus of a forum on March 13 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey. Dr. Tapan Monroe, chief economist for PG&E, will open with the keynote address, and then groups will form to discuss the following questions: Where are we now in terms of sustainable development? Where would we…

Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop, one of the world’s foremost medical researchers and a leading advocate for science education and increased public investment in scientific research, was named chancellor of the University of California’s San Francisco campus earlier this month. Acting on the recommendation of UC President Richard C. Atkinson, the UC Board of Regents…

Thanks to a recent gift, undergraduates in the Environmental Studies Department have a new Regents’ Endowment to tap to support their field-study projects. Alice Cooley recently contributed to the Richard A. Cooley Award for undergraduate field study, which was established in memory of her husband, who was the founder and first chair of the environmental…

The University of California, which is embarked on its own aggressive and innovative academic outreach program, endorsed a plan announced earlier this month by President Clinton to promote college and school partnerships and to prepare low-income students for higher education. The president’s High Hopes initiative, a $140 million competitive grant program, is designed to raise…

History professor Pedro Castillo was quoted in the Mexican newspapers–Diario de Chihuahua and El Heraldo de Chihuahua in Chihuahua and El Universal and La Cronica in Mexicali–after he presented a series of talks on Mexican immigration, the Mexican American community, and the Latino vote this past December. He was also quoted in El Norte and…

Manuel Pastor, director of the Latin American and Latino studies program at UCSC, moderated a high-level panel discussion on race and poverty last week with members of the Advisory Board to the President’s Initiative on Race. Advisory Board members were in San Jose to conduct an evening community forum and a daylong meeting. Pastor moderated…

The UC Santa Cruz Transportation and Parking Services Office (TAPS) has added two links to its Web site that provide timely road condition reports. The Santa Cruz County Road Conditions report is updated several times a day during the peak of heavy storm periods and appears to provide the best information on Santa Cruz County…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A special collection of funds in support of acquisitions for the University Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz, recently reached $1 million in value, thanks to the generosity of a number of benefactors (see attached list of donors). Twenty-three endowments have been established by these donors in a range of subjects…

As an art major at UCSC in the early 1970s, Rick Carter says he never did well with landscapes. Ironically, over the past 25 years, Carter has enjoyed an enormously successful career creating backgrounds–three-dimensional backgrounds that are viewed by millions each year. Carter, who graduated in 1974, is one of Los Angeles’s top production designers,…

The Millennium Committee is holding a town hall meeting for the entire campus community on Thursday, March 5, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Kresge Town Hall. At the meeting, the committee plans to present preliminary ideas about principles to guide UCSC and to solicit feedback on those ideas.

"The Reign of El Niño" will be the topic of a talk by Gary Griggs, professor of earth sciences and director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, when alumni gather at India Joze on Wednesday, February 11, at noon for their monthly luncheon meeting. Professor Griggs will describe the El Niño process, its impact on…

On Monday, February 2, this Douglas Fir toppled onto the roof of the Ticket Office in the Performing Arts complex, causing minor damage to the office and puncturing a nearby roof. Another view of the tree on the Ticket Office. Recent rainstorms and wild winds have caused a number of trees to fall across campus.…